Lester Golden
2 min readJun 14, 2022

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You undermine some legitimate arguments with these inaccuracies:

1. The Enron fraud took place under the Clinton administration, though the scandal went public in October 2001. The reform that triggered it and the Tyco, Worldcom and the epidemic of corporate fraud was passed in 1995 under Clinton: the abolition of joint and several liability for accounting firms that wanted to scale up to serve their multinational clients overseas. The Big Eight (then 7, 6, 5 and finally 4) firms bought Congress, and Clinton signed this deregulatory monster. Each partner in an accounting firm was then no longer responsible for the misbehaavior of all the other partners, which made Arthur Andersen's negligent facilitation of Enron's fraud possible.

2. The US$ is not cratering. It's more than 12% higher than mid 2021. I shorted 32k euros last year and see the profits in my brokerage account every day. Here's what's cratered: the GBP, JPY, euro, BTC, ETH. You should look at charts in googlefinance and Oanda.com before you publish.

Finance is clearly outside your sphere of competence, which causes you to bend facts to fit your narrative.

3. It was the confusing by design butterfly ballot that handed Florida to Bush. Thousands of Jewish retirees in Miami-Dade and Broward counties unintentionally voted for Pat Buchanan because of this ballot redesign by Florida's Republican secretary of state. That's what made the Gucci riot and the Supreme Court judicial coup stopping the recount possible. Yet you don't mention this key link in the chain of events that elected Dubya.

I voted for Clinton and Obama twice. So you can't accuse me of writing this to defend the fossil-fueled kleptocracy of Dubya/Cheney-Halliburton.

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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